Afterwards, she was cast again by Rodriguez to star in the cult classic Від сутінків до світанку (1996). The moviegoers were as dazzled with her as he had been. He soon gave her big break - to star opposite Antonio Banderas in the cult classic Відчайдушний (1995), bringing her into Hollywood prominence. Robert Rodriguez and his wife Elizabeth Avellan happened to be watching and were immediately smitten with her. Feeling under-appreciated by Anglo filmmakers, she vented her frustrations on Paul Rodriguez's late-night Spanish-language talk show. She also had only one line in Mi vida loca (1993). She appeared on Street Justice (1991), The Sinbad Show (1993), Nurses (1991), and as a sexy maid on Dream On (1990). By late 1992, she had landed only small roles. She approached Hollywood with naive enthusiasm and quickly learned that Latina actresses were typecast as the mistress maid or local prostitute. Heartbroken fans spread rumors that she was having a secret affair with Mexico's president and left to escape his wife's However, anxious to make films and to explore her talent as well as passion, she left both Teresa (1989) and Mexico in 1991. She soon landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a hugely successful soap opera which earned her the star status in her native Mexico. After attending Mexico City's prestigious university Universidad Iberoamericana, she felt ready to pursue acting seriously. At age 12, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. After having seen Віллі Вонка та шоколадна фабрика (1971) in a local movie theater, she decided she wanted to become anĪctress. Her father is of Lebanese descent and her mother is of Mexican/Spanish ancestry. Hayek will next be seen in How to Be a Latin Lover, in theaters April 24.Salma Hayek was born on Septemin Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. George Clooney was like, ‘How come she doesn’t look at us?’, ‘Because I’m the writer.'” “Where of course he makes me dance only for him. “So I did it and from that dance, Quentin wrote me the part in From Dusk Till Dawn,” Hayek explained. “He said, ‘Just put a bathing suit on, and we won’t see your face.'” He and Tarantino were working on the anthology film Four Rooms (1994) and needed a stripper, so Rodriguez reached out to his Desperado star on the day of filming. Hayek was recruited to the project after doing a favor for friend Rodriguez. Because you can’t choreograph a snake, we don’t know what she’s going to do!” I had to go on trance to do the dance… And there was no choreography. “So it was good because I had to overcome my greatest fear. To prod the actress, Tarantino claimed that Madonna was interested in the role, and that she would have no problem being wrapped in python. It’s my greatest fear,‘” Hayek recalled (watch above). “Quentin told me, ‘Oh, by the way, you’re dancing with a snake.’ I said, ‘I can’t do that, I can’t do that. Hayek said at multiple points during our recent Role Recall interview that her memories of filming the scene were blurry because she had gone “on trance” due to some serious ophidiophobia. But she doesn’t remember all that much about the actual filming. Salma Hayek remembers how she got the role of a snake-dancing stripper vampire in the Quentin Tarantino-penned, Robert Rodriguez-directed thriller From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
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